Some people have nothing better to do than find something to bitch about....Although im a little upset about the inacurracies in the speach patten. Proper patois would be " no worries mi bredda sticky bun soon come" not " come soon". Jeeez.

Imagine if the guy in the commercial was doing a Charlie Chan impression. That would be looked at as pretty racist huh? Same thing here. Not surprisingly, a lot of black people have found this commercial offensive. Just like they do in real life, when white clowns run around doing their auditory minstrel show.

I don't think its racist, in that there are plenty of white people in JA that have the Carribbean accent and uses patios. The most racist thing that I see in all of this is the outrage apparently generated by the assumption that the only people in JA that uses accented JA patios are black.

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I don't think its racist, in that there are plenty of white people in JA that have the Carribbean accent and uses patios. The most racist thing that I see in all of this is the outrage apparently generated by the assumption that the only people in JA that uses accented JA patios are black.

Well put. All the offense I've seen about these adds seems to be from people in the states. Jamaican is a nationality, not a race. The reaction to these adds in Jamaica has been pretty good actually.

The comments from Jamaicans on youtube and Huffpost about this commercial seem to be overwhelmingly positive, although an awful lot of them are scratching their heads about why this would be considered racist.

great skit......Germans are certainly different from Americans........they were clowning obviously....
but I do believe that Europeans have used patois in their music in a more natural and believable way than some of us Americans (the worst being the fake patois sound systems)